Alive Quote by Kevin Brockmeier

“Let me say this. It was worth the whole awful, irritating time spent searching the Archives just to watch that moment happen. It was…

— Patrick Rothfuss

“All the while she wondered if any strange good thing might come of her being in her ancestral land; and some spirit within her…

— Thomas Hardy

He knew she was there by the joy and terror that took possession of his heart [...] Everything was lit up by her. She…

— Leo Tolstoy

Her heart felt as if it were breaking in her breast, bleeding and bleeding, young and fierce. From grief over the warm and ardent…

— Sigrid Undset

She was no longer that happy creature who in earlier youth wandered with me on the banks of the lake and talked with ecstasy…

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

“She had that aching feeling again, that feeling she knew was happiness. It seemed not only unfamiliar but terribly fragile—and frightening. She wondered how…

— J.T. Geissinger

“She alone was left standing, amid the accumulated riches of her mansion, while a host of men lay stricken at her feet. Like those…

— Emile Zola

Her eyes, though tired, had the glint of one who never stopped expecting to be amused, and her mouth turned up at the corners…

— Kate Morton

“She had seen them in turmoil all round her--love, hatred, vengeance, treachery--she herself practically the pivot around which they raged. Out of the deadly…

— Baroness Orczy

Love, to her, was something hat comes suddenly, like a blinding flash of lightening - a heaven-sent storm hurled into life, uprooting it, sweeping…

— Gustave Flaubert

“All her life, she had learned that passion, like fire, was a dangerous thing. It so easily went out of control. It scaled walls…

— Celeste Ng

What she felt was a lighthearted sort of compassion, almost like laughter. A swish of tender hilarity, getting the better of all her sores…

— Alice Munro